NOTES ON SEDIMENTARY FACIES

SEDIMENTARY FACIES 

It is an assemblage of rock, mineral and fossil which represent the environment or condition of it's origin.

It refers to the appearance and peculiarities which distinguish a stratigraphic unit, that is formed by assemblage of adjacent unit.

Sedimentary facies
Sedimentary facies


Lithofacies. 

Biofacies.

  1. Stratigraphic unit

  • Lithostraigraphic
  • Biostratigraphic
  • Chrostratigraphic

Parameters of sedimentary facies

  • Geometric 
  • Lithology
  • Sedimentary structure 
  • Paleocurrent pattern 
  • Fossil


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